H. G. Wells Quotes about Opportunity

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The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

H. G. Wells

Dream, Opportunity, Men

H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

H. G. Wells

Children, Mean, Opportunity

H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

H. G. Wells Quotes about Opportunity

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